Google, Microsoft, Facebook Teaming Up to Fight Phishing

Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are teaming up with banks and security vendors to develop a platform for blocking phishing attacks. The Domain-based Authentication, Reporting and Conformance group (DMARC ) will seek to develop a system which can authenticate the sender of an email message and weed out potential phishing messages. The group's aim is to create a feedback system where both the sender and recipient can be authenticated and impersonation attempts can be automatically blocked. The group said its aims to create a standards-based platform that will allow service providers to set policies on their messages which can block unauthenticated emails and provide reports on how security protections are operating. AOL, Google, PayPal, Yahoo and Facebook are among the companies participating in the development process. Financial firms such as Bank of America and Fidelity ar...